Geek Crusade invites you to pay your last respects to the late, great Oberyn Martell. Join us for our latest Dinner is Coming event as we celebrate the Game of Thrones fandom over food, conversation, and this time, funeral rites.

Requiem for the Red Viper

All praise the name of Oberyn of the House Martell, Prince of Dorne, the Red Viper and father to the Sand Snakes! Come join us for a celebration like no other in the Seven Kingdoms, as we bring the Prince’s body home to Dorne. Lay our sweet Prince to rest with us, then feast on the best that Dorne has to offer.

Inspired by A Song Of Ice And Fire, the high fantasy epic by George R. R. Martin, our latest dinner will begin with a solemn ceremony to commemorate the life and death of Oberyn Martell. This will be followed by a lavish tasting menu inspired by the cuisine of Dorne and the history of House Martell. Seats are limited to a party of 50, and here’s what’s on the menu.

Tasting Menu

Dinner consists of a 6-course tasting menu, served communal style. The pictures below depict sharing plates for four. If you do not want to share and prefer individual plating, let us know.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

[toggle title=”What is a Requiem?“]A Requiem, pronounced asˈre-kwē-əm is a) a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead or b) a musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass or c) an act or token of rememberance. Devotees of Oberyn Martell can therefore pay their last respects and finally gain closure.[/toggle][toggle title=”How is this a Game of Thrones-inspired dinner?“]In the GOT books, there are rich, detailed descriptions of the different cuisines from the Seven Kingdoms. In this dinner, the dishes are either inspired by specific lines from the books or from the history of House Martell.[/toggle][toggle title=”Why are you serving the food communal style?”] Because Oberyn did everything communal style. ;p [/toggle][toggle title=”Do I need to be a Game of Thrones fanatic to attend this dinner? I don’t know much about the show or the books.“]You don’t need to be a GOT fanatic – you just need to appreciate good food, and a good conversation over a nice meal. [/toggle] [toggle title=”Must I dress up?“]You don’t have, but if you feel a burning desire to turn up as one of the sand snakes or even (gasp!) the Mountain, we certainly won’t stop you![/toggle] [toggle title=”Is Oberyn Martell my father?“] Well, Bastards are born of passion and our prince is a passionate man. Your queue number is 129. [/toggle] [toggle title=”I’m coming as the mother of dragons, can I bring my dragons?“]Of course. Restaurant Sela is a dragon friendly restaurant. Torching of food is allowed. [/toggle] [toggle title=”What happened at your last Dinner is Coming events?“] So much fun! check out what happened at our Welcome to King’s Landing and Panem Forever events. [/toggle] [toggle title=”Is your event affiliated to HBO?“] Dinner Is Coming is an event organized by fans for fans, and is in no way affiliated with HBO or George R.R Martin. [/toggle] [toggle title=”What are your upcoming Dinner is Coming events?“] We created our Dinner is Coming series of pop-culture events to connect fans, fandoms and food. Connect with us, and a raven will be sent to inform you of our upcoming events.

3 things you need to know about Agent Carter

Some of you might be asking yourselves, just who or what is this Agent Carter show that’s taking up the Agents of SHIELD time slot, and why should I care?

In case you’ve been living in Antarctica for the last few months, the long awaited Agent Carter premieres with its two hour special TODAY! I’m so excited, I’m practically bouncing off the walls. Unfortunately my excitement isn’t really shared by my friends, most of whom responded with “Huh?” when I mentioned the show to them. So here’s three essential things you need to know about Agent Carter.

1) She’s Captain America’s tough as nails first love

To recap, we first met Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), where she was introduced as an agent of the Strategic Scientific Reserve who had to supervise recruits as they trained to become candidates for the Super Soldier programme.

From the first time she knocked out a loudmouthed recruit who made fun of her accent, Peggy Carter soon proved that she was that rarest of characters – a strong, tough as nails female character who took no prisoners. Even when a member of Hydra broke into the basement lab where Steve Rogers was given the Super Soldier serum, Peggy Carter was the only one who dared to shoot back. No wonder she caught his eye.

Peggy has been featured before in a one-shot that was included in the Iron Man 3 (2013)DVD, butit was all too short and left me wanting more. The next time she showed up on screen was in archival footage at a Captain America exhibit in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), before the scene cut to Steve Rogers visiting a wizened Peggy in a nursing home.

2) She’s one of the founding agents of SHIELD

If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Peggy after finding out that Steve Rogers went down in a plane, Agent Carter has all the answers. The seven-week series is set a year after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, and Peggy has been relegated to a desk job while the male SSR agents get to go on field assignments.

However, her old friend Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) tasks her with finding out who has stolen his deadliest weapons and put them up for sale. Assisted by his butler Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy), Peggy goes undercover and does what she does best – kicking ass and taking names.

3) She’s a feminist icon – in every way

The prevailing sexist attitudes of the 1940s means that a woman like Peggy Carter would have met with a lot of obstacles, and the eloquent Atwell has much to say about the similarities between Peggy and herself:

“I think I probably mostly relate to her in that she’s a modern woman … culturally at the moment and certainly in my generation, there’s been this expectation that, because we’ve moved so far ahead from the 1940s about where women can be in the workplace, she’s having to find a way of having it all, and what I can relate to is that struggle between the personal life and the professional life. Now there’s a pressure for women to be good mothers and good wives but also to be heading businesses, and the toll that that takes, I think, personally on women is that they’re having to juggle all of those things.”

Agent Carter marks the first time Marvel has had a female-led TV series, and headed by two female showrunners (Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas) no less. While this is indeed a triumph, I’m still waiting for the first female-led big screen outing from them. (Where the hell is my Black Widow movie?!)